The Silent Number

Posted: 2010-01-23


Yo Frankie, the Blender Foundation's Apricot Open Game Project, is probably the best example so far of FOSS 3D gaming. Nexuiz is up there as well, but Yo Frankie is an important title which shows what can be be done using entirely FOSS tools with limited time and resources when you have a solid development model. It is a testament that Free games and Free content, like the films produced by the Blender Institute's Open Movie Projects, can (and will) succeed!

Sadly, even though Yo Frankie was released during the Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) release cycle back in 2008, it is now over a year later with Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) coming up and Yo Frankie is yet to be packaged for Debian/Ubuntu. COfundOS, which uses the threshold pledge system to create a monetary incentive for a specific task be fulfilled for a Free software project, currently has €35 or $50 waiting for whoever is willing to package this software! Isn't anybody up to the task?